Overview
The mouse support is broken under Windows 8.1 it seems.I’m going to show you how to grow fists big enough to punch shoddy mouse support into submission!
Punching The Problem Into Submission
First off, I might as well punch you because you have the nuts to ask one such as me to help you with a problem! Second off, I’ll help you anyway.
You drink Monster Energy Drink and do steroids until you are powerful enough to punch the problem, that should solve it.
If you aren’t enough of a man to do that, there is an alternative.
Step 1. Go to your Wasteland directory, find “wasteland.exe”, which should be in (SteamAppscommonWasteland).
Step 2. Right click on wasteland.exe, there should be a dropdown box. Click on the “properties” button at the bottom.
Step 3. You should have another window open, this window should have a tab called “compatibility” on it, click that.
Step 4. You should see a new menu, check a box that says “Run this program in compatibility mode for:”, then set it to Windows 7, also check “Run this program as an administrator”.
Step 5. You should have mouse support so you can play a computer game released nearly thirty years ago. Congrats.
TL;DR, Set Wasteland.exe to the compatibility mode of an older Windows OS, and check the “run as admin” box. I’m not sure which fixes it, because I’m too manly to take the time.
11/27/2015 Update: Have you spent the last three years of your life trying to fix Wasteland’s mouse bugginess issue with my guide? Well, I’m ninety percent sure the mouse issues have been patched by now, but if you are still having trouble punching this problem into submission, then go out and drink some Gatorade-infused Monster Energy Drink with vodka poured into it and then go punch the game in the face, which is your computer screen. Should sugar-mixed drunken rampaging not help you with your video game problem, pretend you are playing the game as it was released in the late eighties and use the keyboard controls, or go play Fallout or Wasteland 2 or something.